Maybe I’m paranoid, but am I the only one who thinks all of the furor over Newsweek’s recent retraction is a diversion?
In case you’ve been under a rock, in its issue dated May 9, Newsweek published a small piece in their “Periscope” section which stated that American guards at the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba were using a number of extreme tactics to get terror suspects to reveal information, including, at one point, flushing a copy of the Qur’an down a toilet.
Do you notice the way everyone has seized on the religious infraction, has seized on the lack of respect for Islam that desecrating that faith’s holy book would evidence?
Do you notice the way everyone is ignoring that first part about the guards using extreme tactics to get terror suspects to talk?
Do you notice the way everyone is ignoring the fact that we’ve been holding people prisoner, some for going on three years now, without charging them with anything, cut off from communication with the rest of the world, including their legal counsel?
Maybe I’m paranoid. Or maybe, just maybe, the Emperor’s naked.
News sources:
- BBC:
- New York Times:
- Newsweek Retracts Account of Koran Abuse by U.S. Military (may require registration)
- Google News Search:
“extreme tactics” that whole situation just reeks of sketchiness. I remember them also using phrases like “soft torture” is that possible? “Involuntary detention camps” are there some voluntary detention camps out there some where? I hear they keep them in very brightly lit rooms with loud noise/music to keep them up for days on end and ask them non-stop questions. It’s brutal.